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Merchant marine

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of merchant navy: a fleet of commercial vessels. countable
  2. 2
    conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry wordnet
  3. 3
    Synonym of merchant ship: a single vessel in such a fleet. countable

    "Captain Robert Dollar of San Francisco, dean of American ship owners, […] is still, although nearly 80, the eager champion of an American privately owned merchant marine."

  4. 4
    the crew of a merchant vessel wordnet
  5. 5
    Synonym of merchant mariner: a sailor in such a fleet. countable, nonstandard, proscribed

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